Combination cigarete extinguisher and ash tray



Jan. 17, 1956 A. RUscH 2,731,019

COMBINATION CIGARETTE EXTINGUISHER AND ASH TRAY Filed May l, 1953 Arran/Er United States Patent (lOIVEBIFIA'EIGN CIGARETTE' EXTINGUISHER AND ASH TRAY Alfred Rusch, Los Angeles, Calif.

Application May 1, 1953, Serial No. 352,400

3 Claims. (Cl. 131235) This invention relates to a combination cigarette extinguisher and ash tray, and more particularly to the combination, with an ash tray, of a cigarette extinguishing member arranged for being moved to and from an ash dumping position in relation to the tray.

Among the objects of the invention are to provide a more convenient and clean means for extinguishing cigarettes and cigars; to provide a cigarette extinguishing means that will guard against injury to the fingernails or discoloring the fingers of the user; and to provide a ciga rette extinguisher which may be depended upon completely to extinguish cigarettes, thus safeguarding against starting res, particularly in situations where idle lighted cigarettes may Scorch or burn adjacent inflammable objects.

Another, and more specific object of the invention is to provide a combination cigarette stub receiver and ash tray wherein said receiver is mounted upon said tray for quick manual movement from a normal to an inverted posi tion and vice versa, and which, when inverted, drops a short distance, thus being jolted in such a manner as to cause its contents to be discharged into the ash tray.

Other objects, advantages and features of invention will hereinafter appear.

Referring to the accompanying drawing which illustrates a preferred embodiment of the invention, which has been reduced to practice.

Fig. l is a plan view of the complete device.

Fig. 2 is a view of the structure shown in Fig. 1, showing the same partly in side elevation and partly in section.

Fig. 3 is a fragmentary vertical section on line 3-3 of Fig. 2, in which the receiver is inverted and the handle shown angularly off position for clarity of illustration.

Fig. 4 is a horizontal section on line 4--4 of Fig. 2.

Figure 5 is a vertical section taken on the line 5-5 in Figure 2.

Referring in detail to the drawing, therein is shown a circular ash tray 7 having a flared side wall 8 surrounded by a horizontal, outwardly directed peripheral, flange 9. From diametrically opposite side portions of said flange supports 11 and 12 are provided with apertured feet 11b and 12b through which fastening members extend to attach supports 11 and 12 to llange 9.

A shaft 15 is carried by and spans the space between the aforesaid supports, said shaft having a radially reduced end portion 16 which turnably occupies a round hole through the upper part of the support 11, the opposite end of the shaft having a longer, radially reduced part 17 turnably seated in the lower end of a crotch resulting from a vertical slot 18 in the upper end of the support 12. Said shaft preferably carries a peripheral flange 19 at the inner end of its reduced part 17. Said shaft part 17 has attached to its outer end an operating handle 20, thus providing a manually turnable support for parts next described carried by said shaft.

A cigarette stub receiver is normally supported by said shaft 15 in the manner shown in Fig. 2, where the upper part of said receiver is shown projecting somewhat "lee above saidl shaft. while the bottom of said receiver extends a considerable distance therebelow. Said receiver is desirably of a somewhat frusto-conical shape, as shown. It has a diametrical slot. 26 extending deeply into itsV smaller end or lower portion, and the aforesaid shaft 15 has a narrowed flattened midlength portion 15a which fits in a laterally sld'able but non-turnable manner in said slot. In`

a spaced relation to its smaller end said receiver is girdled' by a stop band 27, which may be of rubber, attached by two diametrically opposite screws 28.

A set of four symmetrically disposed, frusto-conical sockets or recesses 31 extend deeply into the larger end of said receiver 25, and are dimensioned for receiving and extinguishing the lighted ends of cigarette butts projected into their bottom portions, or, optionally, being of larger diameters to accommodate cigars.

Within each end portion of the upper portion of the slot 26 is litted a small rubber cushion 34 as seen in Figs. 2 and 5, the utility of which will be understood when the operation is hereinafter described.

Diametrically opposite portions of the tray ange 9 are shown suitably dished at 35 to provide conventional cigarette or cigar rests.

In using the device, when a cigarette or cigar butt is to be discarded the burning end thereof is inserted into one of the sockets 31, thus quickly extinguishing it. When it is desired to dump into the ash tray 7 the butts that have accumulated in the receiver 2S, the operator will give the handle 20 a 180 degree turn, thus inverting said receiver, which, when it approaches complete inversion will gravitate downwardly until the stop band 27 strikes the attened part of the shaft 15, thus jolting said receiver with suflicient force to cause any adhering cigar or cigarette fragments to be shaken loose and deposited in the ash tray. Thereupon the operator will turn the shaft and receiver back to the original position shown in Fig. 2, the stop band 27 engaging the shaft 15 before the bottom of the slot 26 quite reaches said shaft.

The upper and lower elastic cushioning members which have been described constitute means which limit the gravity produced falls of said receiver 25 in relation to the shaft which passes therethrough, and at the same time practically eliminate the sound produced by the aforesaid dropping movements of the receiver.

I claim:

1. A device of the kind described comprising an ash tray, mounting means upstanding from opposite side portions of said ash tray, a horizontally extending shaft turnably carried by said mounting means and vertically spaced above said ash tray, a receiver for cigarette stubs carried by said shaft, said receiver having an open top, a closed bottom and an endless side wall, said receiver having an elongated diametrical slot extending through said wall, said shaft having a portion non-circular in cross section fitted within said slot in a non-rotatable relation to said receiver, spaced apart stop means carried by said receiver limiting the movement of said shaft in said slot so that when said shaft is turned through an angle of degrees, inverting said receiver, said receiver will drop in relation to said shaft the distance permitted by said stop means and will receive an impact which will loosen adhering material from said receiver and facilitate the dumping thereof into said ash tray.

2. The subject matter of claim l, and said stop means being in two parts, one of which arrests the movement of said receiver in one direction and the other of which arrests the movement thereof in the opposite direction, one of the parts of said stop means consisting of a band girdling the slotted part of said receiver and secured thereto.

3. A device of the kind described comprising an ash tray, mounting means upstanding from said ash tray, a

horizontal support rotatably carried by said mounting means and vertically spaced above said ash tray, a receiver for cigarette stubs carried by said support, said receiver having an open top, said receiver being non-ro* tatably mounted with respect to said support so that when said support is rotated through au angle of 180 degrees, said receiver is inverted, said receiver being loosely mounted with respect to said support so that upon being inverted it Will drop vertically a substantial distance toward said ash tray and receive an impact which will loosen adhering material from said receiver and facilitate the dumping thereof into said ash tray.

References Cited in the file of this patent UNTTED STATES PATENTS Weinberg May 6, Van Gelderen May 27, Hickman June 11, Brand Feb. 23, Marley Nov. 2, Omelina Nov. 9, HaWXhurst Oct. 14,

FOREIGN PATENTS Great Britain July 21, 

